Charlotte Wells Biography

Awards

• 2017Brief Encounters Grand Prix-International Competition: nominated
• 2017SXSW Grand Jury Award-Narrative Short: nominated
• 2017Special Jury Recognition-Narrative Shorts: winner
• 2017Short Film Grand Jury Prize-: nominated
• 2022Golden Athena-Best Picture: nominated
• 2022AFCC Special Award-Best First Film: winner
• 2022BSFC Award-Best New Filmmaker: winner
• 2022British Independent Film Award-Best British Independent Film: winner
• 2022British Independent Film Award-Best Debut Screenwriter: nominated
• 2022Douglas Hickox Award-: winner
• 2022British Independent Film Award-Best Screenplay: winner
• 2022British Independent Film Award-Best Director: winner
• 2022Festival Prize-Best Screenplay: winner
• 2022Critics' Week Grand Prize-: nominated
• 2022Golden Camera-: nominated
• 2022French Touch Prize of the Critics' Week Jury-: winner
• 2022Milos Stehlik Award-Most Promising Filmmaker: winner
• 2022CFCA Award-Best Original Screenplay: nominated
• 2022Cineuropa's Best of Year-Best Film: winner
• 2022Critics Award-: winner
• 2022Grand Special Prize-: winner
• 2022DFCC-Best Director: winner
• 2022DFCC-Best Screenplay: nominated
• 2022Louve d'Or-Best Film: winner
• 2022Film Comment's Year-End Critics' Poll-Best Film: nominated
• 2022FFCC Award-Best First Film: winner
• 2022FFCC Award-Best Director: nominated
• 2022Gotham Independent Film Award-Best Feature: nominated
• 2022Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award-: winner
• 2022GWNYFCA Award-Best Director: nominated
• 2022GWNYFCA Award-Best Original Screenplay: nominated
• 2022GWNYFCA Award-Breakthrough Director: winner
• 2022Golden Coconut-Best Feature Film: nominated
• 2022Golden Coconut-Special Jury Prize: winner
• 2022IFJA Award-Best Director: nominated
• 2022IFJA Award-Breakout of the Year: winner
• 2022ICP Award-Best Screenplay: nominated
• 2022ICP Award-Best Director: nominated
• 2022IFF Panama-In Competition: nominated
• 2022Sierra Award-Breakout Filmmaker of the Year: winner
• 2022MIFF Award-Bright Horizons Award: nominated
• 2022Narrative Feature Competition-: winner
• 2022CineVision Award-Best Film by an Emerging Director: winner
• 2022NBR Award-Best Directorial Debut: winner
• 2022NYFCO Award-Best Debut as Director: winner
• 2022OAFFC Award-Breakthrough Filmmaker: winner
• 2022PCC Award-Best Screenplay: nominated
• 2022Special Award for the Promotion of Gender Equality-Best Film: winner
• 2022New Waves Award-Best Film: winner
• 2022SFC Award-Five Fire Directors: winner
• 2022New Directors Competition-Best Film: winner
• 2022New Directors Competition-New Directors Competition: winner
• 2022FCA Award-Director of the Year: nominated
• 2022FCA Award-Screenplay of the Year: nominated
• 2022Golden Eye Award-Best International Feature Film: nominated
• 2023EDA Female Focus Award-Best Woman Screenwriter: nominated
• 2023EDA Award-Best Original Screenplay: nominated
• 2023EDA Award-Best Director: nominated
• 2023EDA Female Focus Award-Best Woman Director: nominated
• 2023Grand Jury Prize-Best European Feature Film: nominated
• 2023Golden Reel-Best Foreign Film: winner
• 2023AFCA Award-Best First Film: winner
• 2023BAFTA Film Award-Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director, or Producer: winner
• 2023BAFTA Film Award-Outstanding British Film of the Year: nominated
• 2023BAFTA Scotland Award-Best Feature Film: nominated
• 2023BAFTA Scotland Award-Best Director - Fiction: winner
• 2023BOFA-Best Screenplay: nominated
• 2023BOFA-Best Director: nominated
• 2023Chlotrudis Award-Best Original Screenplay: winner
• 2023Chlotrudis Award-Best Director: nominated
• 2023Heterodox Award-: winner
• 2023COFCA Award-Breakthrough Film Artist: winner
• 2023Critics Choice Award-Best Original Screenplay: nominated
• 2023DFCS Award-Best Original Screenplay: nominated
• 2023DFCS Award-Best Director: nominated
• 2023DGA Award-Outstanding Directorial Achievement in First-Time Feature Film: winner
• 2023DFCA Award-Best Director: nominated
• 2023Dorian Award-Director of the Year: nominated
• 2023Dorian Award-Screenplay of the Year: nominated
• 2023Independent Spirit Award-Best First Feature: winner
• 2023Girls on Film Award-Best Feature Film: winner
• 2023Gold Derby Film Award-Original Screenplay: nominated
• 2023Gold Derby Film Award-Director: nominated
• 2023HFCS Award-Best New Filmmaker: nominated
• 2023HFCS Award-Best First Film: winner
• 2023HCA Award-Best First Feature: winner
• 2023ICS Award-Best Director: nominated
• 2023ICS Award-Best Original Screenplay: nominated
• 2023ICS Award-Best Debut Feature: winner
• 2023LEJA Award-Best Director: nominated
• 2023LEJA Award-Best Original Screenplay: nominated
• 2023ALFS Award-Breakthrough British/Irish Filmmaker of the Year: winner
• 2023ALFS Award-Director of the Year: nominated
• 2023ALFS Award-Screenwriter of the Year: nominated
• 2023NSFC Award-Best Director: winner
• 2023NCFCA Award-Best Directorial Debut: winner
• 2023NDFS Award-Best Director: nominated
• 2023NDFS Award-Best Screenplay: nominated
• 2023OFCC Award-Best First Film: winner
• 2023OFTA Film Award-Best Original Screenplay: nominated
• 2023OFTA Film Award-Best Feature Debut: winner
• 2023OFCS Award-Best Debut Feature: winner
• 2023OFCS Award-Best Director: nominated
• 2023Directors to Watch-: winner
• 2023Premio Guarani-Best Foreign Film: winner
• 2023Critics Award-Best Foreign Director (Melhor Diretor Estrangeiro): winner
• 2023Critics Award-Best Foreign Film (Melhor Filme Estrangeiro): winner
• 2023SFBAFCC Award-Best Director: nominated
• 2023SFBAFCC Award-Best Original Screenplay: nominated
• 2023SFCS Award-Best Director: nominated
• 2023TFCA Award-Best Director: winner
• 2023New Europe - New Names Competition-Best European Debut: nominated
• 2024Bodil-Best English Language Film (Bedste engelsksprogede film): winner
• 2024CinEuphoria-Best Film - International Competition: nominated
• 2024CinEuphoria-Top Ten of the Year - International Competition: winner
• 2024CinEuphoria-Best Screenplay - International Competition: nominated
• 2024CinEuphoria-Best Director - International Competition: nominated
• 2024Días de Cine Award-Best Foreign Film: nominated
• 2024Gaudí Award-Best European Film (Millor Pel·lícula Europea): nominated
• 2024Eagle-Best European Film (Najlepszy Film Europejski): nominated